3/28/2012

Choosing leaves to make green leaves ear studs
I make each leaf from polymer clay embossing it with dried leaves.
After few days of drying, I paint them with ink.
Voilà! Here's my spring collection! :)
Let's have fun! :)
One day I'd love to make a drawn cartoon...
Meanwhile, spring is awakening,... on my ears as well, why not? :)
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3/27/2012

Well, I was supposed to prepare some pieces for pit-firing from this white textured clay. I didn't yet, but I made some bangles. Yep! :)

"Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE. Kilns have since replaced pit firing as the most widespread method of firing pottery, although the technique still finds limited use amongst certain studio potters.
Unfired pots are nestled together in a pit in the ground and are then covered with combustible materials such as wood shavings, leaves, metal oxides, salts, sawdust and dried manure..." source
Bangles were drying during the week-end, and today I sanded them and left them in the kiln for the first firing.
I'd love to pit-fire them, but I'm not sure about the result. Let it be an experiment.
Here are some examples of pit-fired pottery on Etsy >>

3/21/2012

So here's the full set. Necklace is finished with my little hallmark, tiny plates of earrings has been set on sterling silver wire and a sterling silver ring base has been attachet to the ring-plate.
The name that occured to me is Abundance. I wanted to make something that gives a feeling of fullness, of plenitude.
The mantra, the message of this set is: Everything you need is already inside yourself...in every moment you are Abundance...
Ring and earrings re-make.
I love them much more in this way!
I almost forgot: All this beauty is available in my shop>>

3/14/2012

Here is just a sneak peek into the studio accompanied by these wonderfully smelling flowers and bright Mediterranean day light...
Other day I received my woven labels and yesterday I was sewing them to all the scarves and pouches and bags...

3/12/2012

Recently I was thinking to cut my hair. Short. Very short.
But I couldn't find time to call to the hairdresser...Couldn't find time or was afraid to go out of "comfort zone"?
Today my husband, after hearing me saying one more time: "I want to cut my hair! I need a change!", told me : I'm tired to hear that! Go and cut your hair!
So I did.
Not so short, just the fringe.
I can't recognize myself. I look like not me.:)

odjfgihdsghougeqvervgevg!!!, I almost forgot!
I'm so happy because one of my necklaces has been featured in Chick pea magazine Spring issue!!!
Yay!
"It's a quarterly vegan magazine, which takes its content from submissions from around the internet. .."

You can read it online or purchase a printed copy or a year's subscription. Chick pea autumn and winter issues are available to read online too!
"Printed copies are sustainably printed and shipped, and use recycled
paper and vegetable-based inks. they’re very high quality publications,
more of a mix between a coffee table photography book and recipe book.
it’s wonderful to have around, much easier to cook from than any
website, and great to let other people read who’ve never heard of
veganism before.
as always, it’s ad-free, and if you get a year’s subscription the shipping is included in the price...!"
Chick pea home page>>

You'll find my necklace on the page 77!
The magazine is full of great receipes, interesting articles and good photography!

3/11/2012

I can't avoid thinkig about Kiyomi every time I use this beautiful handmade plate.
Kioymi is a japanese ceramist behind KoideStudio

I think, here is the difference between industrial and handmade. Handmade connects you with that person who made the object ...isn't it beautiful?
And then, I begin to think about all the people who wear and use things I made and I feel myself so excited...how many smiles, how many "you made my day", how many "I enjoy it everyday", "it was like Christmas to open the parcel", "it was so much fun"...e t.c., e t.c...I close my eyes and I feel myself so good, like floating in the sea...free and happy...
I'm so very grateful to all the customers who leaves feedback, write me a message or even send me a picture! This is beautiufl!

Today, today, today...I simply enjoyed to stay with my family.
A sunny sunday, warm, at home, walk in the garden with Roc, cooking lunch and improvising these small pan-cakes.

They turned out quite beautiful, a bit lacy and tasty :)
If you are curious about receipe it's quite simple:

I used soy milk you can use also any kind of milk
some water
1 egg
some salt
baking powder
vanilla sugar
wheat flour

I can't tell you the proportions bc I didn't measure the ingridients.
Also you can prepare them without the baking powder but with yeast.

Also I enjoyed a lot reading this post . I'm sure you'll love it too!
Have a nice evening and beautiful beginning of the week!

3/08/2012

These remember me russian oatmeal cookies, they were my favourites....
Oatmeal cookies with milk....mmmm...delicious!
There is a tiny plate, future ring and probably earrings...a set.
I'll finish these with...yes, you guessed - with pearls and coral beads...
And then, hopefully it'll be even more "delicious" than oatmeal cookies with milk :)

3/06/2012

I spent a whole day sketching labels and I didn't draw anyhting worthing.
Finally I draw something I liked and I decided to use tools I already have.
My options were:
*Block printing (curve a stamp)
*Gocco screen printing (I purchased a Gocco printer more then a year ago and still didn't find COURAGE to print something with it yet *BLUSHING*)

So I curved the stamp and used Riso cloth ink (which I purchased after I purchased the Gocco printer) and I tried to print on fabric.
I missed rubber brayer and palette to apply the ink better, but in general I'm quite satisfied with the result.
I find something magic in printing, so I was very excited and enjoyed a ton "leaving my trace" on fabric.

Some ironing and labels are ready to be sewn.
Do you see this tiny yellow flower? - It's my son's "signs of attention" :)

Also, I made some stitches on the cotton ribbon and I found they looked awesome, so I decided to add these stitched labels on the inside side of the scarves as well.
So here they are! How do you find them? ;)
And here is a new scarf, ready to embrace and warm somebody's neck :)
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